Monday, April 21, 2008

I already covered the fact that the more nutritional and healthy a product in the supermarket is the more expensive and/or difficult to find it will be.

What about fast food? Why is fast food so damn convenient, cheap, and so bad for you? Can’t you do a drive thru place that offers nutritional items? How about some ingenuity on how to make them convenient enough to eat in the car if you must? I think pure convenience and lack of options pushes a lot of people to fast food. They just don’t structure their lives to have the time for something else.

Did you know there was an imminent court case against Kentucky Fried Chicken over the fact that they were putting too much grease into the waste water and they were impacting the entire sewer system in Pennsylvania? They avoided it by purchasing a grease filtering device. What that tells you is that the food is still just as greasy but they found a way of cleaning up the waste from being so. People? Don’t care… Waste water? Forced to care…

And look at the hamburger offerings. Does this really look appetizing?

Have you ever seen the original costume of Ronald McDonald? It’s dorky and ridiculous. He has a hat that is a tray with a full meal on it. He has a Dixie cup for a nose. It’s a wonder they ever got off the ground.

But really, even though they got rid of the hat and the stupid Dixie cup, check out the outfit he’s got on.

Come on now, parachute knickers? I don’t think so. Seriously, what’s with the stripes? Did he escape from clown prison? Was he buying clothing from the Cat in the Hat? I don’t I go in for the Velveeta Tube stick with stripes look personally.

I think if we reprioritize our focus on health and nutrition rather than convenient crap there will be a few changes. Like these:

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Couldn't agree more. I can't believe people actually eat things that look like that "burger". Yuk. But, then again, I'm a bit of a food snob. And Ronald McDonald is the devil's spawn sent to lead our youth astray......

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You know, if they'd put a Ronald McDonald lookalike in every fast food place, people would quit eating it pretty fast. I know it would scare the crap out of me and break me of the habit. I do love a good cheeseburger every now and then, though, and it would break my heart to learn that french fries aren't really vegetables.:)

I agree with everything you say (particularly as to Ronald's fashion sense) but I need my burger from Harvey's. (Every once in awhile...)As for McDonald's - I was always felt sick after eating there. And that was just from nibbling on my kids' fries.

Hubby brought tacos home from Taco Bell the other day. I took one sniff and my stomach turned... they were off. Luckily he was having something else that seemed to be fine... but I had to pretend to eat them so as not to have hurt his feelings. I successfully slipped them back in the bag without him noticing...

LOL....I love this. It is so true. Ever since eating healthy we've had to stay away from fast food, and now it just looks disgusting to me. I was always a McDonalds person, can't stand Wendys or BK or Taco Bell.

nothing is more terrifying than waking up with the "king". that mascot is super creepy. did you ever see that soft porn ad they did with hootie of blowfish in a milk maid fantasy with jugs of gushing ranch dressing?

I have caulrophobia so I’m gonna have to say John Wayne Gacy, err Ronald McDonald is the scariest!

We actually have a fast-food joint that has a really great sandwich - Chick-Fil-A grilled sandwiches are the BOMB and listed as the best fast-food sandwich by Eat This, Not That. (Only 3.5 grams of fat and the sandwich is awesome. By the way, my family are fast-food-aholics.)

However, if I'm gonna have a cheeseburger, I will always choose What-A-Burger.

I have caulrophobia so I’m gonna have to say John Wayne Gacy, err Ronald McDonald is the scariest!

We actually have a fast-food joint that has a really great sandwich - Chick-Fil-A grilled sandwiches are the BOMB and listed as the best fast-food sandwich by Eat This, Not That. (Only 3.5 grams of fat and the sandwich is awesome. By the way, my family are fast-food-aholics.)

However, if I'm gonna have a cheeseburger, I will always choose What-A-Burger.

jacki - I was the BK one...which I hear is one of the worst nutritionally

she - The funny part is that I found that story on KFC by accident. The company that makes the grease containment unit featured it as a good case study for their product. I don't even think they realize that implies how awful the food is!

I have never seen a mcdonalds togo containter, and I have never seen those types of fries at mcdonalds, the bun does not look like the same bun that mcdonalds offers nor does the meat even come close to the circle meat that mcdonalds serves...I have been to mcdonalds around the world and they all have the same look....the picture of the burger and fries looks like it came from a totally different place. mcdonalds has to go bags and the fries are missing their box they come in and the burger is missing its box or wrapper.

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